Revolutionary Days

The Number of Killed or Wounded

Reportsas to the number of killed or wounded differ. Naturally, there can be no
question of an exact count, and a visual estimate is very difficult. The
government’s re port giving 96 killed and 330 wounded is obviously false, and no
one believes it. According to the latest press reports, journalists handed the
Minister of the Interior a list of4,600 killed or wounded, as compiled
by reporters. Of course, even this figurecannot becomplete, since it
would be impossible even in the day-time (let alone at night) to count all the
killed and wounded in the various clashes.

Thevictory of the autocracy over the unarmed people took a toll no smaller than
did the big battles in Manchuria. No wonder the St. Petersburg workers,
according to the reports of foreign correspondents, cried out to the officers
that they were more successful at fighting the Russian people than they were
the Japanese.